Re: pid offset into task structre

[Vincent Hanquez]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:34:48PM -0200, Fabiano Ramos wrote:
> Hi All. Some newbie question.
>     1) Considering that I provided the correct value in PID_OFFSET, will
> ebx contain the pid of the task that issued the syscall, at the end of the
> fragment?

yes

>    2)  By taking some address arithmetic (&tsk.pid - &tsk) I got 144.  Is this
> offset always the same? Is that an easy way to get it directly from
> assembly code?

Generate it from arch/$ARCH/kernel/asm-offset.c with the same mecanism that
TI_task uses.

something like:

	OFFSET(TASK_pid, task_struct, pid);

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